Palimpsest - Volume #12, Issue #2 (02/2024)

Table of Contents

Editor’s Introduction

Essays

Healing and Care

“She Will Remember Everything”: Black Diasporic Feminist Healing Roots in Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban
Dana Murphy

Care and the Quiet Self: Youth Sovereignty, Self-determination, and Other Things That Glow
Margaret Goldman

Abolition

After the Burning Years: Freedom, Fugitivity, and Maneuvering through Cemeteries of Abandoned Futures
Sindiswa Busuku

Write Their Names: Percival Everett’s The Trees as Re[a]d Record
Grégory Pierrot

Abolition as Worldmaking of the Damnés
Vanessa E. Thompson

“Y’all Celebrating Black Men in Prison”: Black Feminist Abolitionists and Intracommunal Violence
Fania Noel

Black Joy as a Remedy
Kellie Carter Jackson

Black Women in Translation

Author Meets Translator: Évelyne Trouillot and Marjorie Attignol Salvodon

Author Meets Translator: Kettly Mars and Nathan H. Dize

Author Meets Translator: Igiaba Scego and Barbara Ofosu-Somuah

Author Meets Translator: Maboula Soumahoro and Kaiama L. Glover

Book Reviews

All Books Reviewed by the Palimpsest Editorial Collective

Contributors